The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-05-14
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.

Counterfeit silver dollars being circua-
ted in Washington and are giving the business
men no little trouble.
The employees of the Treasury Depart
ment will present to ex. Secretary Manning, upon
his return from Europe, testimonial costing ST.
200.
1t is said that Attorney eneral Garland,
after his term in the Cabinet expires, will locate
in New York city and engage in the practice of
his profession.
The Garfield statue was unveiled in Wash
ington on Thursday, and the ceremonies attend
ing it were very impressive. Ex-Speaker Keifer
delivered the grafton.
The base ball fever is raging in Washington
to an almost alarming extent. The clerks in the
departments wild on the subject and even the
chiefs have not escaped it. Ht
One source of Secretary Whitney's popularity
is said to be the fact that he never keeps caller
waiting. Frequently he leaves the dinner table
to see men who gain access to his house.
Thousands of applications for Office fill the
pigeon holes in the Offices of the appointment
clerks in the several departments in Washington,
and it is not likely that one in five hundred of
these will ever see the light
The new silver vault for the Treasury De-
partment will have a storage capacity of 1O0,-
100000 silver dollars. This vault will be a
wrought iron cage, incased in thick brick walls,
covered with concrete and asphaltum.
W. Hyatt of Connecticut, Treasurer of the United
States, vice G. N. Jordan, resigned. The new
Treasurer is about fifty years of age and has had
largo experience in the banking business.
The new civil service rules, requiring exam .
nations for promotions in the departments, are
making it very uncomfortable for many of the
older Government employees, who will be obliged
to undergo examinations if they want to hold
their places
"A Massachusetts farmer recently found three
$500 U. S. bonds in stone wall on his farm.
They were sent to the Treasury Department where
they were pronounced genuine, and as soon as the
farmer produces satisfactory proof of ownership
he will get their face value with interest
Secretary Bayard rises between and 5, break
fasts at $50, is at the office hour later and goes
home about in the afternoon. He dimes at and
passes the remainder of the evening in his study
or visits one of the few houses where he is in the
habit of calling. His health is said to be very
good.
Secretary Lamar did not attend the dinner
given at the White House in honor of Queen Kap-
iolani and the gOssps at once started the report
he would not sit at the table with the dusky skin
ned queen. The fact is the Secretary was ill at
the time, but the newspapers thought it good OPP
portunity to start lie on him and it was DONE
Senator Cameron expects to leave Washington
with his family for Lochie, his country seat, be-
low Harrisburg, by June 1. After remaining there
ne Will ulVlue his tune curing tne mOntns Oh July
and August between Bar Harbor, Maine, and
Beverly, Mass, returning to the Capitol in Sep
TENDER, should the President call an extra session.
Since the Washington Monument was dedica-
ted, little over year ago, $4,000 people have
assembled the shaft. There are only two men in
charge Of the monument-one above and one be-
low-and as they unable to watch the people
to keep them from defacing the inside of the shaft,
it is to be closed until Congress approprates more
money To increase the force of guards. Hun dreds
of the people who went into the monument were
relic hunters and they did not hesitate to deface
the interior in order to something to carry
away with them.